And repeat after me:
"I will not feed the troll. Hungry trolls go away."
Question: Agree?
See? Just because it's never happened doesn't mean it won't, Wild!
Change can be a beautiful thing.
Christy Lee--DandyLion and levity are O. thing. This ones a little different, don't ya think?
Wild--something like this? Never.
I enjoyed the entertainment and humor until the posts crossed over into rude and harrassing territory. Sometimes this site can get a bit too serious.
This particular fruit loop we have bothering the site lately seems to be particularly twisted.
I've managed to stay away from this O..
"I can resist anything but temptation"
Agree. Must be some dumb kid because they only know 1 zip code.
I only liked responding to Dandylion. I miss her.
Right you are. There are O. or two regulars who often answer these posts, thinking they are real. But I have to stop being so "protective" of them or of new people who will get the wrong idea about MMP, and just let O. or two replies slip through from them, vs. nothing at all from the rest of us. Good plan!
Don't these kinds of posts draw even more attention to them?
This O. is not different. Oddly I had a troll google me, post my address, my home phone number. No O. seemed to care that time and that was actually a lot worse than this troll is doing.
I have a site, I have moderated sites, I can assure you the only thing that stops a troll is blocking their IP address. This is something this platform does not have the capability to do.
I stopped keeping track of the trolls that keep coming back, every summer, every spring break, they do it here because they can and nothing we can do will keep them away.
So stop feeding the troll because posts like this feed them more than playing with them because it shows how pathetic or in this case, absent, the moderation is.
I've been tempted but I have refrained. (pat on back) If you got your feelings hurt by a post and this is how you retaliate you have some major problems. And if this is a school aged child doing it, well then they have some major problems too. I will continue to try to starve the trolls, hard as it may be.
I agree!! This O. is sick and twisted and not in a good way!
Totally. I usually don't answer them but the items lately ...
A couple days ago we actually had a few somewhat interesting ones,. now just sad. Unfortunately, they don't go away. they jsut change the name.
You've been on this site as long as I have...you know that won't happen.
How many times has something like this gone around??
I agree! I understand why some might join in the fun. I suggest that they take the post less seriously than some others. I do think that if most of us didn't post back we've taken the fun out of it for the trolls.
I did once..right hand raised, I won't again!
I'm already there. But I'm with wild women. Some people like to feed the trolls. This site is dead at times, they provide entertainment.
It looks like you are wrong! I did a search "don't feed the trolls" and came up with a dozen posts. Here's O. that is a pledge as well.
I will from here on out. What a nit!
What a waste of life and time.
Why can't I have this kind of free time? :(
Ok, now I understand the whole "troll" thing. Being new to Mamapedia, I just figured they were bored teens looking to get attention. I didn't respond. Its ludicrous to respond. Especially to the subject matters that are posted. I don't get it, really. It's a waste of time.
I do confess though some of the normal questions seem to at times seem very off themselves.
